Picturesque Sketches of Greece And Turkey
Picturesque Sketches of Greece And Turkey
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Nations, like individuals, are apt to grow tired of their best thoughts, especially if they have stumbled upon them early, instead of fighting their way to them by degrees, and prefer a lower class for the sake of variety. Senility, that is, age without its appropriate honors and virtues, must ever bab- ble, and national senility delights in the petty and the trivial.
The ablest men in the time of Greorge the Second, nay of Queen Anne, labored under the same "invincible ignorance" as the stupid...est, with respect to Gothic architecture. When the Athenians had talked away all their wisdom, and had allowed valor and patriotism to be superseded by rhetoric and buffoonery, they may still have made their boast of the Parthenon ; but I suspect that the ascent to the summit of the Acropolis became irksome to them. Not many years have elapsed since the ascent to an eminence, almost as noble, and as richly stored with venerable monuments — the rockof Cashel — ^had become so toilsome, that Archbishop Price, compassionating the Sunday labors of his coach-horses, abandoned the glorious and time- honored cathedral on its summit, which at that time needed but some repairs to its roof, and has since fallen into ruin.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Nations, like individuals, are apt to grow tired of their best thoughts, especially if they have stumbled upon them early, instead of fighting their way to them by degrees, and prefer a lower class for the sake of variety. Senility, that is, age without its appropriate honors and virtues, must ever bab- ble, and national senility delights in the petty and the trivial.
The ablest men in the time of Greorge the Second, nay of Queen Anne, labored under the same "invincible ignorance" as the stupid...est, with respect to Gothic architecture. When the Athenians had talked away all their wisdom, and had allowed valor and patriotism to be superseded by rhetoric and buffoonery, they may still have made their boast of the Parthenon ; but I suspect that the ascent to the summit of the Acropolis became irksome to them. Not many years have elapsed since the ascent to an eminence, almost as noble, and as richly stored with venerable monuments — the rockof Cashel — ^had become so toilsome, that Archbishop Price, compassionating the Sunday labors of his coach-horses, abandoned the glorious and time- honored cathedral on its summit, which at that time needed but some repairs to its roof, and has since fallen into ruin.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by De Vere Aubrey to read onlineMoreLess
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